(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-10-15 21:05

In a Party school classroom in Shanghai, more than 50 migrant workers watched the opening ceremony broadcast live nationwide.

"It is really a good piece of news when when Hu said more efforts would be made to enrich the spiritual and cultural life in the countryside, remote areas and among the migrant workers," said Liu Haijun from central Hubei province, now a staff member of a catering company in Shanghai.

Chinese college students also expressed optimism for their future as Hu has pledged in his speech to promote employment.

"The speech mentioned the strategy to expand employment, especially for college graduates, which is the biggest concern for me and my classmates," said Li Jian, a junior majoring in life science at Lanzhou University in northwest China's Gansu province.

"Employment is the core of people's livelihoods. I hope that the Party and our country can create a more favorable employment environment so as to let every one of us make use of what we have mastered," Li said.

Pan Yue, vice director of the State Environmental Protection Administration and a delegate to the Party congress, said he noticed that Hu had ranked the promotion of a conservation culture as one of "the new and higher requirements" in building a moderately prosperous society, and that every organization and family would be involved in the drive.

"It fully reflects the importance of conservation culture to the Chinese nation," Pan said.

Hu said in his speech the country would "promote a conservation culture by basically forming an energy and resource-efficient and environment-friendly structure of industries, pattern of growth and mode of consumption".

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